LAT nitpicks refueling

In an editorial today, the LAT is outraged that American planes carrying terrorists refueled twice in 2002 at the joint U.K.-U.S. military base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. Why shouldn't U.S. flights refuel at a base jointly financed, built and run by the American and British governments? Well, the LAT thinks, without proof and despite statements to the contrary from the governments involved, that terrorists on those flights may have been waterboarded somewhere in the world either before or after the refuelings. It's hard to imagine how presumed adults could get so excited about so little but the liberal rage against Bush knows no bounds.